Category Archives: gardens

nature notes (3) The Fall

Posted on June 3, 2013 by jonathan trustram

Today I saw a fox trotting up the garden path with a fat bunch of unruly feathers in its mouth. Come to think of it I haven’t seen either pigeon for a while. And S has been out and bought … Continue reading →

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nature notes (2)

Posted on June 2, 2013 by jonathan trustram

Sitting at the kitchen table by the big window overlooking the garden, we have a good view of the rats. They’re bold and relaxed. At first, in the winter, there was just one that I noticed. An elderly rat, taking … Continue reading →

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I was reluctant to write a conclusion, because of its banality, and because I’m embarrassed that I didn’t read the landscape more clearly at first. The combination of order and confusion, of care and neglect, gives a special feeling to … Continue reading →

Posted on January 7, 2013 by jonathan trustram | 2 Comments

Peniarth-uchaf

Posted on October 28, 2012 by jonathan trustram

 Yesterday I woke up writing. that’s the cover of the book. and this could be the last page: There are two years, could maybe be twenty, between these photographs, which were taken on a dilapidated estate called Peniarth-uchaf in the … Continue reading →

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sparrows, with footnotes in Bern.

Posted on August 19, 2012 by jonathan trustram

I thought we had the situation under control.  I saw myself, without being aware of it, in a priestly role, a guardian of the holy places which provided sanctuary for God’s creatures, a dozen or so surviving sparrows which flitted … Continue reading →

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this is a patch of the dry garden at St John’s churchyard, Waterloo (by the IMAX cinema), a mixture of chance and design, a happy moment in a season of confusion.

Posted on May 21, 2012 by jonathan trustram | Leave a comment

a rash of nettles

Posted on April 22, 2012 by jonathan trustram

Nettles for sale at Stoke Newington farmers’ market, £1.60 for 100 grams! With a sign saying ‘they sting!’ I blame that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his article in the Observer colour magazine recently (which I came across inadvertently of course, I … Continue reading →

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notes on plants, ideas for the herb garden at St George’s

Posted on January 29, 2012 by jonathan trustram

Ideas for the herb garden at St George’s           ( spring and winter 2011) …and for a Chelsea Fringe walk and talk I went to Kew one summer’s day last year and had a look at the Queen’s Garden, the 17th … Continue reading →

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